Dr Sea Rotmann, Operating Agent of IEA DSM Implementing Agreement Task XXIV: ‘Closing the Loop – Behaviour Change in DSM: From Theory to Practice’.
1. Where do you currently work? After 7 years in the New Zealand public service, I started my own ‘Behaviour Change Consultancy’ called SEA – Sustainable Energy Advice. My main project is as the lead Operating Agent on Task 24 of the International Energy Agency’s Demand Side Management Implementing Agreement (www.ieadsm.org).
OnTheJob interview – Dr. Sea Rotmann
BlogSpot by Jeff Bell: Bioenergy – As Long As It’s Done Right
Part of what makes renewable energy so attractive is that people understand intuitively that using solar and wind energy helps society live within its means. Renewable energy sources are flows that are continually replenished. Sunshine continues to fall on the earth whether or not it is captured for energy.
BlogSpot by Adriaan Kamp: A View On The Developments In Our Global Energy System
We are living in interesting times. Our world civilization is experiencing a dynamic change. New wealth and wealth distribution are being created in an unprecedented speed. Over the coming two to three decades 3 billion people in Asia, Latin-America, Middle-East & Africa will join the new global middle-class. They are prognosed to enjoy the same consumption patterns in their homes, offices and transportation now so much taken for granted in the OECD and upper-middle class families in the emerging and developing nations.
Shell Arctic Drilling Operations Suspended For 2013
An effort to give the United States a new source of domestic oil and refill the trans-Alaska pipeline took a hit Wednesday when Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced it will suspend offshore petroleum drilling in the Arctic Ocean for 2013. Shell drilled last year in both the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast and in the Beaufort Sea off the state’s north coast.
Trade Deficit in U.S. Plunges on Record Petroleum Exports
Record petroleum exports helped shrink the U.S. trade deficit in December to the smallest in almost three years as America moved closer to energy self- sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo.
Deep Sea Drilling Muddies Political Waters
The oceans deep are a repository of many secrets. Shipwrecks have existed undisturbed for centuries, as have corals and fish of almost unimaginable diversity. Now, increasingly, the secrets of the seabed are being looked at by companies drilling for oil and minerals. International geopolitics and the environment are getting more muddled as a result.
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